Wednesday, 2 December 2015

The Italians are boycotting planet-polluting food

"Although Italians continue to generally favour produce grown as locally
as possible, a "strongly growing snob trend" means the end-of-year
festivities generate demand for out-of-season luxuries such as Chilean
cherries and melons from Guadeloupe, according to farmers' organisation
Coldiretti.

It calculated that one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of peaches flown in from
Chile generates 21.6 kg of carbon emissions, arguing that switching to
zero-miles produce could significantly cut transport's 40 percent share
of total global emissions."